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  • #1
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Hi Hazel Well here I am in the office and it’s dead quiet. What I’ll do is email pics of some of the stuff in the files and the comments with them. This is exactly what you wanted – stuff about the Games people played together with comments people made. Perfect!”
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

  • #2
    Behcet Kaya
    “It had taken me a full three days to read and study the police reports. My initial thought was to find what I thought I wanted to see, but I quickly abolished that idea because I couldn’t tell what I needed to see. There was just too much information. I never really knew where that break was going to come from and I didn’t want to miss anything.”
    Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

  • #3
    “Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #4
    A.R. Merrydew
    “Your Twin Flame forces you to face your inner demons, so you can free yourself from them.”
    A.R. Merrydew, The Dumb Dumb's Handbook: To Twin Flame Relationships

  • #5
    K.  Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #6
    Michael Ende
    “Este señor se compone sólo de letras. De muchísimas letras, se entiende, de un número astronómico de letras, pero al fin y al cabo sólo de letras.
    Aquí está su amiga. Es, como se ve, de carne y hueso. ¡Y de qué carne! Da gusto verla, ¡y no digamos tocarla!
    Los dos van ahora juntos a la feria. En la góndola y la noria todo va bien todavía. Pero luego llegan a una caseta de tiro al blanco; un tiro al blanco un poco extraño, esa es la verdad.
    ¡Pruébate a ti mismo!, puede leerse en grandes letras en la parte de arriba. Y más abajo figuran las reglas. Sólo son tres:
    1. Cada tiro es un blanco garantizado.
    2. Por cada blanco, un tiro gratis.
    3. El primer tiro es gratuito.
    El señor que rodea con el brazo la cintura de su amiga estudia atentamente el letrero. Quiere seguir su camino rápidamente, pero ella insiste en que haga uso de la ventajosa oferta. Quiere ver de lo que es capaz.
    Pero el señor no quiere.
    -¿Pero por qué no, cariño? ¿Qué tiene de malo?
    Tiene de malo que hay que disparar sobre un blanco bastante insólito, sobre uno mismo, es decir, sobre la propia imagen reflejada en un espejo de metal. Y el señor de letras no se siente en absoluto lo bastante real para distinguir de una manera tan arriesgada entre sí y su imagen reflejada.
    -¡O disparas -dice la amiga, por fin, furiosa-, o te dejo!
    El sacude la cabeza. Entonces ella se va con otro, un carnicero que entiende de carnes y huesos.
    El señor se queda solo y la sigue con la mirada. Cuando desaparece de su vista en el gentío, él se deshace lentamente en un pequeño montón de diminutas minúsculas y mayúsculas que la multitud pisotea al pasar.
    La verdad es que para eso podría hacer disparado, ¿verdad?”
    Michael Ende, El espejo en el espejo

  • #7
    Susanna Clarke
    “I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • #8
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “principle, formulated for the occasion, that “a woman does not succeed to the throne of France.” Thus was born the momentous Salic “Law” that was to create a permanent bar to the succession of women where none had existed before.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

  • #9
    Diana Gabaldon
    “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #10
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern―to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #11
    Richard P. Feynman
    “They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
    Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character



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